Author: mikepudlo

Windham is really several places wearing one town name. There is the borough of Willimantic with its mill-era three-deckers and Main Street storefronts, the quieter residential stretch of Windham Center, the commercial corridor of North Windham along Route 6, and South Windham down toward the Shetucket. A house in one of those does not sell … Continued

Monson is a town where people stay. Families hold onto houses on Bethany Road and Upper Palmer Road for two and three generations, and when it finally comes time to sell, the questions are rarely about square footage. They are about liability, about fairness, and about whether the number someone quotes over the phone is … Continued

The average financed home sale in Hampden County takes somewhere between 45 and 75 days from accepted offer to keys. Almost none of that time is the seller’s doing. It is the appraisal queue, the underwriter’s conditions, the re-verification of employment, the second appraisal when the first one comes in low. Remove the mortgage and … Continued

September in Vernon is the last comfortable window of the year, and most homeowners do not treat it that way. The foliage along the Hop River Trail is still a month out, the Hockanum River is low, and the furnace has not run since April. By the time the first hard freeze hits in November, … Continued

A divorce puts a house in a strange position. It is usually the largest thing two people own together, it is the hardest thing to split, and it is the one asset that keeps costing money every single month the decision drags on. In a town like Somers, where a lot of the housing is … Continued

If you own a home in East Longmeadow and you have started thinking about selling, you have probably already had the same two conversations in your head. One is with a listing agent. The other is with a cash buyer. They are genuinely different products, not two versions of the same thing, and the right … Continued

Cross the Frog Bridge into Willimantic and you are looking at one of the more interesting housing markets in eastern Connecticut. Thread City built itself around the American Thread Company mills, and the housing that went up to serve those mills — the two-families on Jackson Street, the triple-deckers off Valley Street, the Victorians the … Continued

Holland is a small town with an unusual housing stock. Between Hamilton Reservoir, Holland Pond, and the roads that ring them — Mashapaug, Brimfield, Sturbridge, Stafford — a large share of the homes here started life as summer camps and got winterized somewhere along the way. That history creates questions at sale time that a … Continued

If you own an older house in Chester, there is a decent chance the walls holding it up are not poured concrete. Drive the back roads off Route 20 — up toward Chester Center, out Skyline Trail, along Walker Brook — and most of what you pass was framed long before anyone in the Westfield … Continued

Our office is on High Street in Suffield, so a fair number of these conversations happen in person — someone stops in, or we run into each other at the post office and the question comes out sideways. After a few years of that, the same five questions come up almost every time. Here they … Continued

Ellington is not a market that behaves like the rest of Tolland County. It has a working farm town’s land pattern, a commuter town’s subdivisions, and a lake community stitched onto the northeast corner — and each of those three Ellingtons sells completely differently. If you are thinking about selling in 2026, here is what … Continued

A fire takes about fifteen minutes to change everything. The part nobody warns you about is what comes after: the boarded windows, the insurance adjuster who wants three more documents, the smell that will not leave the framing, and a mortgage company that is suddenly holding your claim check. If you own a fire-damaged property … Continued

Stafford Springs has always been a value town. In a county where Tolland, Ellington, and Somers command suburban prices, the borough at the center of Stafford still trades on its own terms — older housing, mill-town bones, and a price point that puts a whole house within reach of buyers who could not touch one … Continued

South Glastonbury is not really a separate town, but anyone who lives there will tell you it may as well be. Drive south on Main Street past the Hopewell Road split and the character changes — the road narrows, the stone walls start, the orchards open up on the hillsides, and the housing stock gets … Continued

A vacant house in Wilbraham rarely looks vacant on day one. The lawn still holds its shape, the mail still gets picked up by a neighbor, and from Main Street or Stony Hill Road you would never know nobody has slept there since February. Six months later it is a different story — and by … Continued